While much of the world is focussed on the COVID-19 pandemic, the US Senate recently voted to expand its surveillance powers. Read more about it.

Linux on Windows just took a big graphical desktop step forward with Microsoft's plans for Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Car traffic took a big dip beginning in late March, and headlines celebrated clean air around the U.S. But an NPR analysis of EPA data tells a more troubling story.

‘Max and Keira’s law’ will presume consent for deceased unless family intervenes

Reddit moderator Gallowboob is stepping away from the site after receiving doxxing and death threats, saying administrators view moderators as "expendable."

Imagine getting a flat tire, but instead of swapping it out for a new one you just smear on a chemical that makes the rubber meld seamlessly back together. That’s the kind of breakthrough researchers at Australia’s Flinders University are now reporting, and better yet the material is made of waste products and can be easily recycled itself.

Google says it will no longer build custom artificial intelligence tools for speeding up oil and gas extraction, separating itself from cloud computing rivals Microsoft and Amazon. A...

Inside the top-secret lab where the world’s most powerful design team created the Apple Watch.

Mark Zuckerberg announced the features today.

A lot of people who were on the internet in the early 2000's remember something called RSS.

Fight the power: Japan teen plans lawsuit over gaming advice

It took me 10 years to finish my PhD, so I would assume my procrastination skills are not that bad ;) Fortunately, nowadays, I use some basic rules to fight procrastination and have become quite efficient with it. The following three basic rules helped me a lot to organize myself.

Technology seems to have been a routine part of Neanderthal life.

Just about everyone has had the experience of blinking while having their picture taken. The camera clicks, your eyes shut, and by the time they open again, the photo is ruined. A new ultrafast camera developed at Caltech, were it aimed at your lovely face, could also capture you looking like a dunce with your eyes shut, except instead of taking just one picture in the time it takes you to blink, it could take trillions of pictures.

On Saturday, the US Air Force is expected to launch its secret space plane, X-37B, for a long-duration mission in low Earth orbit. The robotic orbiter looks like a smaller version of the space shuttle and has spent nearly eight of the past 10 years in space conducting classified experiments for the military. Almost nothing is known about what X-37B does up there, but ahead of its sixth launch the Air Force gave some rare details about its cargo.

Apple has purchased virtual reality company NextVR, Apple confirmed to CNBC. The purchase is further evidence of Apple’s plans to enter virtual reality and related augmented reality technologies as a new product category, although the company has not announced firm plans or a new hardware product, aside from AR software for iPhones.

William Skidelsky: Ebooks have reignited the question of what we're really paying publishers for – the physical product, or what's written inside?

Denmark, the first country in Europe to gradually start reopening, reported no coronavirus-related deaths on Friday from the day earlier for the first time since March 13. Denmark’s total number of confirmed cases rose by 78 to 10,791 since Thursday, with the number of hospitalisations falling by 10 to 137. The death toll remained unchanged at 537.

A growing number of Linux distributions no longer offer 32-bit versions, and that’s a trend that’s very much set to continue.

AMD has just revealed its new Radeon Pro VII graphics card, and has timed this launch to coincidentally happen the day before Nvidia makes its big GTC Ampere reveal on YouTube. The Radeon Pro VII is aimed at the likes of broadcast professionals, CAD and CAE (computer-aided engineering simulations) and high-performance computing in general.

A tale of two hardware divisions. Google, as reported by The Information, suffers with operational chaos that is as bizarre as it is inept. Hardware boss Rick Osterloh reportedly held a meeting where he tells everybody “he did not agree with some of the decisions made about the phone” — are these decisions not things he himself is in charge of? The visionary who made the Pixel’s excellent camera what it is quietly leaves, while the man in charge of Pixel hardware overall is shuffled off to a strange job before leaving entirely. Woof.

There likely has never been a more vibrant community around this 21-year-old game.

Although common Soviet people mostly adored jazz, the country’s leaders didn’t always share such love for it. Generally accepted at first, jazz was soon proclaimed as a symbol of the hated Western world in the USSR.

Get a glimpse of new and improved real-time rendering features currently in development.

An amateur astronomer’s discovery kicked off a Space Age detective story.

The wagon—and the wagon wheel—could not have been put together in stages. Either it works, or it doesn’t. And it enabled humans to spread rapidly into huge parts of the world.

At 22, Marcus Hutchins put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story.

The persistent myth can be put to bed.

It has been hard to find any kind of silver linings since the coronavirus pandemic has essentially put life on hold for much of the nation and the world.

HBO's Silicon Valley is actually a reasonable representation of the real thing. Here's how to get your master's degree in startups by binge watching it.